| 摘要 |
A curved needle (12) with a flexible leader wire (14) and a multi-stranded cable (17) fastened to the leader wire is passed through the sternum and around a vertically split in the sternum. A crimp (18) on the trailing end of the cable abuts one side of a stop bar (19) in front of the sternum. The needle and other end of the cable are passed from the other side of the bar through an aperture (21) in the bar and then separated from the leader. This procedure is repeated at the desired number of vertically spaced sites on the sternum to bring the sternum halves together under tension. A crimp (34) is swaged onto the cable at the other side of the bar whereby the crimp holds the cable in tension. |
